Archive for the ‘commercials’ tag

While looking around for a Dodge pickup TV commercial to go along with this morning’s Class of ’86 selection, we came across the above TV commercial for the 1971 Dodge Tradesman “Strongbox” cargo van featuring Don Knotts. Quality isn’t great, so we dug a little further and came up with the below spot for the 1970 Dodge Sweptline showing how Chrysler marketed to women 40 years ago. Anybody recognize the actress?

* Last weekend, Truck Norris made the rounds. We spoke with derf, the owner of the pickup, this past week and found out that the 1986 J-10 behind the phenomenon ain’t frontin’ – it really is a B.A. truck. Bonus, derf also put together this handy dandy gear ratio calculator.

* Also on the topic of B.A.ness, Keyblazer over on Expedition Portal recently (okay, last year) picked up this incredible 1977 Dodge van, converted to four-wheel-drive, extended a few extra feet and given a third axle. Where’s the “I could totally live in that thing” guy when you need him? (via)

* The Duke University Digital Library, as it turns out, has quite the collection of vintage television advertisements, which all (or at least partly) seem to come from the archives of the D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles advertising agency, which at points in time held advertising accounts with AMC, Studebaker, GM and Volkswagen.